Data Guard Contracts

Oracle Data Guard
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Guard skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Guard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 639 723
Rank change year-on-year +91 +84 -80
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 31 55 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.096% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.61% 0.60% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 99
10th Percentile £332 £454 £397
25th Percentile £445 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +0.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £575
90th Percentile £644 £575 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -19.05% +6.54% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.02
25th Percentile - - £43.18
Median hourly rate - - £46.35
75th Percentile - - £49.53
90th Percentile - - £50.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.20

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Data Guard is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

Data Guard
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Guard as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Daily rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Guard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Guard.

Hourly rate trend for Data Guard in the UK

Data Guard
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +101 16 £550 +9.13%
England +93 15 £550 +4.76% 3
UK excluding London +35 13 £425 -19.05% 1
London +101 10 £588 +17.50% 2
Scotland +42 5 £338 -28.95%
Wales +21 5 £550 +2.33%
North of England +24 2 £430 -18.10%
East Midlands +17 1 - - 1
Midlands +15 1 - - 1
North West +13 1 £375 -6.83%
Yorkshire - 1 £485 -

Data Guard
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) WebLogic
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) GitHub
3 5 (16.13%) OCI
3 5 (16.13%) PaaS
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (77.42%) Oracle Database
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Database 12c
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle ODI
3 6 (19.35%) PowerCenter
4 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
5 4 (12.90%) Metadata
5 4 (12.90%) MySQL
5 4 (12.90%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
6 3 (9.68%) Billing
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (83.87%) DBA
2 23 (74.19%) Oracle DBA
3 13 (41.94%) Administrator
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Database Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) MySQL DBA
5 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior DBA
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Middleware
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (70.97%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) AIX
3 6 (19.35%) Unix
4 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.68%) VMS
6 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (38.71%) High Availability
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
4 10 (32.26%) Database Security
4 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (29.03%) E-business
5 9 (29.03%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Transformation
7 4 (12.90%) Security Management
8 3 (9.68%) Cost Reduction
8 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis
9 2 (6.45%) Database Tuning
9 2 (6.45%) ERP
9 2 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (6.45%) Programme Management
9 2 (6.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Shell Script
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) OCP
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) IFRS
2 1 (3.23%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.68%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Informatica
3 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) EMC
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk